#The Staff of Magnus

[lakeviewcellar]

[neo--queen--serenity]

Lena losing her patience and furiously berating Gwen for potentially endangering the staff members of the OAIR is quite literally the opposite of how Elias ran the Archives.

Elias used the Archival staff—as well as his Archivist—as pawns that can be readily replaced as needed. His patron offered them minimal protections at best (the Archivist’s privileges notwithstanding), and even then, he would never actually intervene to save any of them if they were in danger, much less take precautions to protect them at their headquarters. They are used as bait, as sacrifices, as currency, as objects. The listener knows, eventually, how easily he could discard them if his plans called for it.

But Lena. This episode showed us that Lena keeps her entire organization running through keeping her subordinates hidden, safe, and unnoticed by the Externals. It’s quite clear through her conversation with Gwen that such a safety risk has never happened before.

As far as we know, Lena has successfully kept all of her employees alive, watched them come and go, bemoaned the turnover rate, and then got them to look the other way while they documented and dutifully filed the horrors.

But most impressive of all, she’s kept her real work hidden from her subordinates, and her subordinates hidden from her real work—a feat Elias had no interest or desire to accomplish.

[iseeyoujon]

The S1 Archives main staff was composed entirely of people who (at least partially) liked men. I choose to believe the OIAR will continue the trend of being equal but opposite to the Archives by having the entire S1 main staff like women.

[statementlives]

chester and norris potentially communicating through case files will be the death of me i fear.

[ceaselesswatchersspecialboy]

If the Magnus Institute Archive is anything like the Archive I volunteer at, sometimes the archival assistants are genuinely just going to be doing mundane tasks like making four-flap folders and boxes to preserve documents.

There also is definitely a conservation department. There has to be.

With how many documents and objects they have in the Archive and Artefact Storage, they need to be preserved! I’m talking correct humidity, temperatures, correct tools for restoration and cleaning (fun fact: old documents can in fact be cleaned up with a simple rubber, also in some cases the ink itself can cause damage to the parchment if not stored correctly).

And also general rule of thumb is that photographs cannot be handled without gloves. Finger prints cause a chemical breakdown that means over a few decades or so, the place in which a photograph has been handled will degrade, at least, that’s how my supervisor explained it to me.

Another thing the Institute would have to sort is slips for keeping track of which documents have been taken out for researchers and students, and when they’ve been put away!

It’s really fun to think about the inner workings of the institute that we don’t see, because there’s a lot that goes into maintaining these things and documenting them.

I’m genuinely begging Jon to get a better archiving system though. I like to think in S4 he does start re-organising the archive and relabelling things with the Eye’s assistance, just for my sanity.

And I love you Gertrude and I get why you did it, but you are my worst nightmare ever. I would take the apocalypse over an unorganised archive any day. Please.

[the-magnusinstitute]

All staff,

In recent months there’s been an uptick in absences from work, and while we in the PR department appreciate that sometimes our Institute can be a difficult place to be employed, Elias Bouchard has asked us to lay out the following guidelines:

ACCEPTABLE EXCUSES FOR MISSING WORK

- illness (physical or otherwise)

- travel difficulty

- medical appointments

- family emergencies

- religious holidays

UNACCEPTABLE EXCUSES FOR MISSING WORK

- ‘a freaky friday type of situation’

- ‘gender crisis’

- ‘trapped in a spiral maze’

- ‘met my clone on the tube’

- ‘jon from the archives’

[mortal-kingss]

charm designs… might make them a thing if people enjoy! :3

likely around 14 USD :)

[notebookpapers]

I see your “Cecil could survive TMA but Jon couldn’t survive Night Vale” posts and I raise you: Carlos (the dad, the myth, the legend) could survive both easily

[agentlove]

something i've always loved about tma is its massive potential for someone to get attached to literally any random character and get something substantial out of it. tma fans reblog and tag with your favorite one-off/statement characters! i like seeing peoples' obscure faves and love for characters others forget exist.

graham folger's an easy pull for me but i do like him a lot, i think about all the not!them victims in general a good amount. if i had to pick someone else it would be justin gough!

[cult-of-the-eye]

It's actually so bad I started listening to tma and my brain immediately started redrafting all my career plans...the "How to Become An Archivist" tab is open...another tab is online shopping for cardigans...

[honeysucklethornsandalligtrhorns]

'i'm fine with elias simps but i draw the line at lady mowbray you people have clearly never met old rich ladies-' i'm not in it for the money i'm in it for the senseless violence and killings. god forbid a woman do anything.

[godshaper]

selkie courting season is EXHAUSTING!!

full pic 🔞 / patreon

[murderandcoffee]

thinking about my s1 wingmen au & how martin would be MORTIFIED at first of tim & sasha trying to set him up with jon, but after a couple weeks of them wingmanning it up for him, he realizes that jon is utterly OBLIVIOUS. he is so wrapped up in his denial re: the supernatural & his desperate attempts to seem competent that all of tim & sasha’s efforts fly over his head. and once martin realizes this, he gets a little bold. he tries to see how overtly he can hit on jon before jon realizes what’s going on. tim, sasha, & martin all get in a competition to see who can finally get it through jon’s thick skull that martin is interested in him without saying it directly (though would he believe them? probably not). jon notices nothing. he’s too busy not-really-disproving statements.

[found-family-tournament]

Found Family Tournament Round 2 Part 7 Group 31

Propaganda and further images under the cut

Archive Staff: Jonathan Sims, Sasha James, Tim Stoker, Martin Blackwood

Mighty Nein: Caleb Widogast, Nott the Brave/Veth Brennato, Fjord, Jester Lavorre, Caduceus Clay, Beauregard Lionett, Yasha Nydoorin, Mollymauk Tealeaf/Kingsley Tealeaf, Essek Thelyss

Archive Staff:

They’re trying their best to understand

Mighty Nein:

Originally, they were only seven, and the Nein part of their group name was a running joke about rolling nines and Caleb's German accent. Then, after Molly's untimely death, the group picked up Caduceus, making seven again. Later, they ally with Essek, who makes eight. And finally, through the power of love and found family, they defeat a villain named Lucien (who inhabits the body Molly had, it's all very complicated), and revive the body to become Kingsley Tealeaf, who looks at Molly as his brother but ultimately makes the group Nine. His revival is literally an act of divine intervention, fueled by the love and loss they all felt after chasing their beloved friend across the continent.

Internally there are other fantastic family bonds. Caleb and Nott/Veth having an incredible bond, Caleb and Beau being the Empire siblings, Molly and Yasha being the circus kids, Beau and Fjord, Cad and Fjord, the chaos crew, Nott and Jester, it goes on and on. They all change each other so significantly, they grow together, and canonically even though they live apart, they all have regular meetups in the tower Caleb created for all of them, with a stained glass window in Molly's honor and rooms dedicated to each member of the group. Even now in the new campaign, they've had cameos that prove years later they still work together and have each other's backs.

This is THEE definition of found family, these assholes were thrown together through circumstance and mostly hated each other to begin with right up until three of their own were kidnapped and then it was ON. And when Molly died, they took his ideals and turned them into a legacy SO POWERFUL they took Essek from a cold, self motivated war criminal to a man willing to die for his friends. They refused to let Beau face her abusive family alone! They helped Yasha heal from her trauma! They took down the whole Cerberus Assembly for what they did to Caleb! They saved the whole dang world together WITH THE POWER OF FUCKING FRIENDSHIP 😭! THEY LOVED MOLLY SO MUCH THAT IT SAVED THE WORLD! THEY NAMED THEMSELVES AFTER A STUPID PUN AND THEN THERE REALLY ENDED UP BEING NINE OF THEM! I WOULD DIE FOR THEM!!!

official art by Ari Orner, fan art by exmakina and tobyjamessharp

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Staff of Magnus

3D asset for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

*Artist Unknown* If anyone knows the artist comment below

[raptor-claw]

Tim, gossiping to Sasha in the Archives: And they were ROOMMATES!

Elias, Watching in his office: omg they were roommates